Four children and two adults injured in knife attack in France

Two adults and four young children were wounded in a knife attack in the southeastern French city of Annecy, authorities said on Thursday.

Many of the victims, including very young children, are said to be in critical condition.

A suspect has been arrested and is being questioned, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter.

The suspect has been identified as a Syrian asylum-seeker who was granted refugee status in Sweden, according to a source close to the situation. The individual was not known to the French intelligence services.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Darmanin are traveling to the scene. Authorities have not yet made a statement about a possible motive for the attack.

French President Emmanuel Macron called the attack an act of “complete cowardice”.

“Children and adults are between life and death,” Macron wrote on Twitter. “The nation is in shock.”